[Adta] Re: Adta Digest, Vol 24, Issue 63
Larmeniox
larmeniox at triad.rr.com
Mon Oct 29 08:40:55 EST 2007
Dear Jessica,
All of the dance/movement therapy programs I am familiar with are excellent
with dedicated faculty who are active in the growth of our profession. I
don't think you could go wrong with any of the programs.
In answer to your question, I am a Hahnemann/Drexel graduate. I attended in
the early 1980s and have had an association with the program since
graduation. I remember having similar questions about programs. My
undergraduate mentor was from Philly and encouraged me to take a risk on the
city of brotherly love (and bring him back some bagels while I was at it). I
was from a small town in SC and had never lived in a large metro area. And I
was young. I moved to Philly to attend the program and did not know anyone.
It was culture shock for me.
The folks at Hahnemann/Drexel were wonderfully supportive. I liked the
structure of the program, which provided clear expectations for performance
while at the same time allowing for depth work within the classes. The
faculty were excellent and even the adjuncts and site supervisors were
dedicated to creating an excellent learning experience. It was a community
of learning. I had access to faculty when I needed them. Our cohort was
cohesive and supportive. The students who were a year ahead of us were
inclusive and took on a mentoring role. I also liked the medical environment
of a teaching hospital. Even though I was in a large city, the school itself
was small and manageable.
The program was challenging. We were in class or at practicum/internship a
minimum of 40 hours/week. We were expected to integrate content and think
about applications almost immediately. We were challenged to address our
personal awareness and development and seek our own therapy as needed.
When I graduated, I felt prepared to practice right away and was ready for
questions and concerns about this very different thing called dance/movement
therapy. 15 years later, when I was in the counseling doctoral program, we
were given an assignment to write about our preparation for practice. My
professor said she had never heard someone speak so positively about a
learning experience as I had about Hahnemann/Drexel. I still believe that my
graduate education at Hahnemann/Drexel was the most influential component in
my professional development. I was blessed to enter a community of dance
therapists from many programs, many countries, and varied backgrounds, who
have continued to nurture each other and promote the professional
development of our group. We are not the biggest group, and we don't pretend
to be the most enlightened, but we are united in our pioneering spirits, and
our belief in the power of movement.
Best of luck to you in your studies.
Leslie Armeniox, PhD, LPC, ADTR
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> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:25:35 -0700
> From: <gizmodancer1 at charter.net>
> Subject: [Adta] Maters Program at Drexel
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> Hello All,
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> I will be graduating this year and I am applying for graduate dance
> therapy programs. I am very interested in the program at Drexel because
> it is in a Creative Arts Therapy program. I have a very strong background
> in dance, but I believe that all of the arts should be collaborated
> together. So, I can appreciate taking classes with various arts
> therapists.
>
> Anyhow, I was wondering if there are any Drexel graduates on the list
> serve that could give me some input about the program. What the
> atmosphere is like? What practicums they did? Likes/Dislikes? etc.
> Picking a grad school is a BIG decision, so any advice or information is
> GREATLY apprecitaed! =) Feel free to respond to my personal email
> address.
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> Thanks! =)
> Jessica
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> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:11:22 -0400
> From: "Anat Ziv" <asziv50 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Adta] My deep apology
> To: adta at adta.org
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> To all my colleagues at the ADTA,
> I would like to deeply apologized for not presenting in the last
> conference as I was scheduled.
> My youngest son, Nadav, was operated the same day I was supposed to
> present at the conference. The surgery was scheduled to be a week
> after the conference but it was changed by the Pediatric surgeon.
> Although it was "only" a hernia, it was not in a condition to postpone
> it. I am really sorry about that.
> I notified the ADTA office( by sending two e-mails) once I knew about it.
> I hope I will have a chance to present my work in the future.
> Anat Ziv
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> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:21:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Alan Harris <davidalanharrisma at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Adta] NYTimes OpEd
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> Here's something worth reading from today's New York Times.
>
> Dancing in the Seats
>
> By DANIEL J. LEVITIN
> Published: October 26, 2007 New York Times
> Montreal
>
> THE fall concert season has begun at music halls around the world, and
> audiences are again sitting in rapt attention with their hands folded
> quietly in their laps. Does anyone besides me find this odd?
>
> Through tens of thousands of years of evolutionary history, music has
> nearly always occurred together with dance. Even today, most of the
> world's languages use a single word to mean both music and dance. The
> indivisibility of movement and sound, the anthropologist John Blacking has
> noted, characterizes music across cultures and across times.
> Music and dance have also always been a communal activity, something that
> everyone participated in. The thought of a musical concert in which a
> class of professionals performed for a quiet audience was virtually
> unknown throughout our species' history.
>
> Although the Greeks built amphitheaters, these were typically used for
> plays, speeches and other public events, not musical performance. The
> first concert halls for music did not appear until the 17th century in
> Europe. York Buildings in London is thought to have been the first, in
> 1678, followed by the Holywell Music Room, built in Oxford in the 1740s.
> As Anthony Storr, a professor at Oxford, once noted, the advent of
> concerts by a society's most skilled performers separated performers from
> listeners. Listeners were no longer expected - or even allowed - to join
> in.
>
> The ancient connections between music and movement show up in the
> laboratory. Brain scans that I and my colleagues have performed make it
> clear that both the motor cortex and cerebellum - the parts of the brain
> responsible for initiating and coordinating movements - are active during
> music listening, even when people lie perfectly still. Singing and dancing
> have been shown to modulate brain chemistry, specifically levels of
> dopamine, the "feel good" neurotransmitter.
>
> Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy,
> comfort, ceremony, knowledge and friendship. And each one is distinct and
> widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and
> fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a
> full-body aerobic way.
>
> Our ancient forebears who learned to synchronize the movements of dance
> were those with the capacity to predict what others around them were going
> to do, and signal to others what they wanted to do next. These forms of
> communication may well have helped lead to the formation of larger human
> communities.
>
> Some of the strongest bonds in our society are formed by people who march
> together in military units, as William McNeill, the historian, has pointed
> out. Members of orchestras and performing groups today likewise develop
> bonds. As Frank Zappa told me years ago, playing music with other people
> can be more intimate than any other activity. The turn-taking and
> accommodation involved call for great amounts of empathy and generosity.
>
> Most of us would be shocked if audience members at a symphony concert got
> out of their chairs and clapped their hands, whooped, hollered and
> danced - as people would at a Ludacris concert. But the reaction we have
> to Ludacris or U2 is closer to our true nature.
>
> Children often demonstrate this nature at classical music concerts,
> swaying and shouting and generally participating when they feel like it.
> We adults then train them to act "civilized." The natural tendency toward
> movement is thus so internalized, it is manifest in concert halls only as
> a mild swaying of heads. But our biology hasn't changed - we would
> probably have more fun if we moved freely.
>
> Music can be a more satisfying cerebral experience if we let it move us
> physically. When we hear a chord we like in works by Sibelius or Mahler,
> our brains want to shout out "Yeah!" When an orchestra builds the timbral
> mass in Ravel's "Bolero," we want to break out of our seats and dance and
> show how good it feels. Stand up, sit down, shout, let it all out. As the
> managers of Lincoln Center contemplate renovations, I say rip out some of
> the seats and give us room to move.
>
> Daniel J. Levitin, a professor of psychology and music at McGill
> University, is the author of "This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of
> a Human Obsession."
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> OPINION | October 26, 2007
> Op-Ed Contributor: Dancing in the Seats
> By DANIEL J. LEVITIN
> Music can be a more satisfying cerebral experience if we let it move us
> physically.
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